Frances Macdonald

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Art Nouveau poster for the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts by J. Herbert McNair, Margaret Macdonald, and Francis Macdonald, featuring a stylized woman in flowing robes with floral motifs and decorative text.

Frances Macdonald

Scottish artist

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Art Nouveau
…artists (and sisters) Margaret and Frances Macdonald in a revolutionary period of creativity beginning in the 1890s. This group in Glasgow, Scotland, combined rectangular structure with romantic and religious imagery in their unorthodox furniture, crafts, and graphic designs. In a poster it made for the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts…
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…artists (and sisters) Margaret and Frances Macdonald in a revolutionary period of creativity beginning in the 1890s. This group in Glasgow, Scotland, combined rectangular structure with romantic and religious imagery in their unorthodox furniture, crafts, and graphic designs. In a poster it made for the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts…
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